El Cid (1990), Sunflower (1970), The Physician (2013), Emil and the Detectives (1931), The War Lord (1965), Macbeth (2015), Faintheart (2008), Valhalla Rising (2009) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best 11th Century movies.
Storyline: Spain is overrun by the Moors and the country's only hope rests in a heroic knight known as El Cid (Charlton Heston). He knows a divided Spain cannot stand and implores his countrymen to unify in order to repel the invaders. But a hitch develops in El Cid's campaign: He gets exiled from his homeland of Castile by the region's power-hungry ruler. In the meantime, he attempts to reunite with his estranged wife, Jimena (Sophia Loren) -- who's still upset by the fact that he killed her father.
Plot Keywords: hero, knight, wife, king, father, spaniard, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An Italian bride (Sophia Loren) finds her long-lost soldier husband (Marcello Mastroianni) living in Moscow with amnesia and a wife (Lyudmila Saveleva) and daughter.
Plot Keywords: woman, man, prisoner of war, missing person, lover, melodramatic, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When nine-year-old Rob Cole felt the life force slipping from his mother's hand he could not foresee that this terrifying awareness of impending death was a gift that would lead him from the familiar life of 11th-century London to small villages throughout England and finally to the medical school at Ispahan. Though apprenticed to an itinerant barber surgeon, it is the dazzling surgery of a Jewish physician trained by the legendary Persian physician Avicenna that inspires him to accept his gift and to commit his life to healing by studying at Avicenna's school. Despite the ban on Christian students, Rob goes there, disguising himself as a Jew to gain admission. Gordon has written an adventurous and inspiring tale of a quest for medical knowledge pursued in a violent world full of superstition and prejudice.
Plot Keywords: physician, orphan, healer, engaging, persia, study, medicine ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.
Plot Keywords: friend, thief, little boy, adult, grandmother, touching, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal villiage where an earlier attempt to build a defensive castle has failed. He begins to rebuild the duke's authority in the face of the barbarians at the border and is making progress until he falls in love with one of the local women.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: knight, brother, bride-to-be, duke, village elder, brooding, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
Plot Keywords: tyrant, wife, ruler, engaging, scotland, guilt, paranoia ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the Midlands, two men and a boy are on losing streaks: Richard has a dead-end job, and his wife leaves him because he's inattentive and has a juvenile obsession for 11th-century battle reenactments. His best friend Julian still lives with mum and divides his obsessions between Vikings and Star Trek. Then there's Richard's son Martin, picked on at school in part because of his father's hobby. Richard vows to win back the heart of his ex, Julian may have met someone online who shares his interests, and Martin wants to stand up to bullies. All get bad advice, which they act on. Is there any hope for any of them?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: wife, family, quirky, fair, vikings, job, self-confidence ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 1000 AD, for years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are escape, beginning a journey into the heart of darkness. On their flight, One Eye and Are board a Viking vessel, but the ship is soon engulfed by an endless fog that clears only as the crew sights an unknown land. As the new world reveals its secrets and the Vikings confront their terrible and bloody fate, One Eye discovers his true self.
Plot Keywords: prisoner, viking, warrior, young boy, sailor, dark, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lancelot is King Arthur's most valued Knight of the Round Table and a paragon of courage and virtue. Things change, however, when he falls in love with Queen Guinevere.
Plot Keywords: lancelot, king arthur, guinevere, knight, rival, confident, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: From the creator of 'Hammer of the Gods', starring Stanley Weber (Borgia) and Annabelle Wallis (Annabelle), the subjects of a ruthless tyrant's oppression discover an unlikely freedom fighter whose code of honor demands bloody retribution.
Plot Keywords: warrior, bleak, brooding, intense, gory, passionate, brutal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In early 11th century China, the Song Dynasty is being invaded by armies of the rival state Western Xia. Yang, the last of a long line of Song generals, is killed and his widowed wife Mu leads other widows into battle to save their dynasty.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: emperor, warrior, barbarian, engaging, china, battlefield, women ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Hebrew with an unusual gift of strength must respond properly to the call of God on his life in order to lead his people out of enslavement. After his youthful ambition leads to a tragic marriage, his acts of revenge thrust him into direct conflict with the Philistine Army. As his brother mounts a tribal rebellion, only Samson's (Taylor James') relationship with a Philistine seductress and his final surrender - to the Philistines and to God - turns imprisonment and blindness into final victory.—Pure Flix
Plot Keywords: young man, temptress, prisoner, rebel, emotional, gripping, passionate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An eleventh century Viking Prince sails to America to find his father, who on a previous voyage had been captured by Indians.
Plot Keywords: viking, prince, king, beautiful woman, native, mystic, campy ...
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